Living in Consciousness ~ Indi(r)a's Food and Garden Weblog

I have so many tomatoes from my garden right now and it’s overwhelming. I have been cooking as many dishes as possible before they get spoiled in this warm and humid Houston weather. One of the recipes I have come up is delicious tasting India inspired chutney with green tomatoes. The recipe is easy, requires only five ingredients and stores well too. The chutney has mild mix of sour-sweet-spice ruchi and tasted really good when applied on toasted bread/chapati.

1. Heat a heavy pot, pour peanut oil and heat until hot about a minute.
2. Add onion and chillies. Stir-fry until they are soft and pale brown.
3. Add green tomatoes. Saute over medium heat for about ten minutes. When tomatoes are cooked to soft mush, turn off the heat. Let the ingredients cool to room temperature.
4. Take them in a blender or mortar. Add salt and puree until smooth. Taste and adjust salt if necessary. Ladle into a clean jar.
5. Serve green tomato chutney with your favorite savory items. The chutney stays fresh for about a week, when refrigerated.

13 Comments

The last time we had an over whelming batch, I washed, wiped, placed them on cookie sheet with out touching, froze them over night, the next day put them in zip lock. That way they are all not clumped and frozen together.

Indira,
Have you thought about investing in a deep freezer? My uncle makes big batches of tomato soup with his bountiful tomato harvest and freezes them in single serve portions and enjoys them for many months!

Indira, sometimes the tang of the tomatoes can be overpowering even as a chutney spread. At such times, you could add a fistful of ulad dal while sauteeing the onions and chillies. This may need some water while blending, and a few more minutes in the blender, but is equally tasty.

Sorry for the late response.Thanks for responding to my earlier post and definetly we will try your method to get rid of bugs.

Regarding the 45days chikkudu, I have only 3 or 4 seeds left as I gave them to some of my friends.If you still want them,please let me know how to send them to you.You can give an email to my yahoo id that I have submitted along with this post.My MIL planted those seeds one and half month back and now we see lot of chikkudukayalu on each plant.Fortunately, there is no disease.